The invasion of the abyss begins with the Laughing at the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 76: Later Jin was confused
The Chinese military tent.

"What did you say? Say it again?"

Nurhaci grabbed Li Yongfang's collar angrily, his face ferocious, veins bulging on his forehead, and asked in disbelief.

The prophecy came true and the nightmare came true!
"Khan, the news is true."

"I sent out three waves of spies, and got the same result. The Bordered Blue Banner was completely wiped out in Jingbian Fort, and only a few people escaped."

"Both Aobai, the commander of the Bordered Blue Banner, and Amin Beile were killed by Shen Yuanliang, who was the leader of the rebels in Yongning City."

The spy chief Li Yongfang lowered his head, not daring to resist, and spoke timidly.

After becoming Nurhaci's grandson-in-law, Li Yongfang had only one way left for the rest of his life, and that was to cling to the Later Jin Jiannu and hope that the Later Jin would defeat the Ming Dynasty.

In order to demonstrate his own value, Li Yongfang relied on his previous network of relationships to contact people who were dissatisfied with the Ming Dynasty, and even bribed them with benefits to get them to open the city gates when the Later Jin attacked.

In this way, the Eight Banners of the Later Jin Dynasty, which were not good at attacking cities, repeatedly broke through the cities of the Ming Dynasty and were invincible all the way until they were defeated in Jingbian Fort and their entire army was annihilated.

"Shen Yuanliang?"

Speaking of this name that makes people grit their teeth, Nurhaci's eyes turned bloodshot, and he couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood, which splashed out, staining the eyes.

"Father Khan."

Huang Taiji exclaimed, hurried forward to support Nurhaci, and summoned the imperial physician at the same time.

"My Lord, the Khan is just suffering from a heart attack caused by rage. Once the blood spurts out, he will be fine. He will wake up in half an hour."

"Drink another bowl of medicine later, and you'll be fine in a few days."

A golden thread was wrapped around Nurhaci's pulse. After the diagnosis, the imperial physician Shan Chonglin touched his gray beard and said solemnly.

Half an hour later, Nurhaci woke up slowly from his bed. After taking a quick look around, he shouted, "Where is Li Yongfang? Call him over here."

"Khan, I am here!"

Li Yongfang, who was waiting outside the tent, heard Nurhaci's call and trotted over in a hurry. He knelt down on the ground with a "bang", very quickly and neatly.

"There are 7,500 soldiers under the Bordered Blue Banner, and each of them is a martial artist of the first rank. Amin is also a peerless martial arts master of the third rank."

"Where did Shen Yuanliang come from? How did he defeat Amin? Explain it to me clearly."

Leaning on the silk pillow, Nurhaci took a sip of tea and asked with a sad face. Until now, he was still unwilling to believe that Amin was dead and his Blue Banner was gone.

The entire Later Jin Dynasty had only eight banners. The loss of the Bordered Blue Banner severely damaged the Later Jin Dynasty and it took several years to recover.

"That day, Lord Beile led the soldiers of the Bordered Blue Banner and ran into the Jinzhou Guards and Fuzhou Guards head-on."

"In order to eliminate the last Ming troops in southern Liaoning, Prince Beile pursued them, but he didn't expect that the Ming troops hid in Jingbian Fort."

Facing the angry Nurhaci, the trembling Li Yongfang had no choice but to tell the story of that day in detail, without missing a word, not adding or subtracting a word.

"Jingbian Fort? How can a mere fortress be so difficult for our Later Jin warriors?"

Hearing this, Huang Taiji, who was serving on the side, spoke in surprise.

In order to resist the attack of the Later Jin Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty court spent a huge amount of money to build fortresses everywhere outside the Great Wall. There must be a beacon tower every five miles and a military fort every ten miles.

Although these fortresses were like nails driven into the land of Liaodong, they hindered the advance of the Later Jin to a certain extent and caused them great trouble.

However, the Later Jin could still conquer these fortresses, but the losses were a bit heavy, so they gave up. "Beile, after Shen Yuanliang captured Yongning City, he responded to the encirclement and suppression of the Ming court."

"He was so crazy that he mobilized 30,000 to 40,000 people to rebuild Jingbian Fort. The city was 10 zhang high and 3 zhang wide, and there were trenches several zhang deep, etc."

Speaking of this, Li Yongfang was still frightened. He had never seen anyone who was so afraid of death.

Generally, those who started a rebellion would expand their military forces to the maximum extent, rob the local food, iron, gold and silver, and then move on to the next place.

Shen Yuanliang took root directly in Yongning City and hired civilians to repair the fortress, even raising it to ten feet, making it comparable to the Later Jin capital of Hetuala.

"Ten feet high?"

Nurhaci frowned and looked unhappy. Having fought on the battlefield for decades, he certainly knew what a ten-meter-high city wall meant.

As long as there are sufficient food and water, let alone the Bordered Blue Banner, even if Nurhaci went there in person, he would be beaten to a pulp, just like Shenyang now.

"Aobai, the commander of the Bordered Blue Banner, led his troops to capture Jinzhou and Fuzhou, using craftsmen to build siege weapons, and then launched a fierce attack for five days, finally capturing Jingbian Fort on the last day."

"Unexpectedly, the garrison commander Ouyang Zerong set a huge fire, intending to perish along with the Bordered Blue Banner, resulting in heavy casualties among the soldiers, who eventually ran into Shen Yuanliang's Iron Guards."

Combining the personal experiences of the fleeing soldiers and the intelligence they had gathered, Li Yongfang roughly reconstructed the situation on that day.

"No, it's not that simple."

"According to what you said, the Iron Guards were able to defeat the Bordered Blue Banner, even though it was the defeated Bordered Blue Banner. This shows that the soldiers under Shen Yuanliang are very powerful."

"How could such a powerful man like Shen Yuanliang give up Jingbian Fort? This is all a conspiracy. Shen Yuanliang did it on purpose. He dug a trap and trapped both the Ming army and the Bordered Blue Banner."

Looking at the sand table in the center of the tent, Huang Taiji reviewed the situation over and over again, analyzing the causes and consequences of the incident, and soon discovered something was wrong.

Thinking of Shen Yuanliang's ruthless plan of driving a tiger to devour a wolf, Huang Taiji, who always thought he was the smartest man in the Later Jin Dynasty, took a breath and cold sweat broke out on his back.

The plan was too cruel and left no room for maneuver. Shen Yuanliang deliberately gave up Jingbian Fort in order to balance the combat power of both sides and continuously bleed the Bordered Blue Banner.

In the end, the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind it, and the Blue Banner was wiped out in one fell swoop.

"So that's it."

"If I don't take revenge for this, I swear I won't be a human being!"

After hearing Huang Taiji's analysis, Nurhaci also reacted. His face turned red with anger and a mouthful of blood rushed to his throat, but he suppressed it violently.

"Li Yongfang, you go down first!"

As if he had thought of something, Huang Taiji, who was about to speak, saw Li Yongfang and waved his hand to tell him to go down quickly.

"The slave retire."

Li Yongfang, with cold sweat on his forehead, felt as if he had been pardoned when he heard this. He bowed respectfully and then quickly backed out of the tent.

"Father Khan, Shen Yuanliang was just an ordinary person before. Now he can defeat Brother Amin. He must have got a great opportunity."

"I think Shen Yuanliang has obtained the Abyss Demon Vine. There has been no news about Brother Manggurtai for such a long time. He must be in danger."

After seeing Li Yongfang leave, Huang Taiji, with a particularly ugly expression, lowered his voice and said.

(End of this chapter)